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Originally Posted by Jim Schaddelee
But the simple solution to lift two robot was a robot that could cover the bar with a thin material so when the two other hanging robots went to hang they would be suspended on thin material "bar cover" not on the bar.
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This is exactly what we did. We had a tremendously consistent hanger (that let us down the last match at Championship due to a loose set screw...), and a bar covering system.
The problem with the bar covering system is that when we were rammed -- hard -- while elevated at FLR, the bar covering system was knocked askew and came into contact with the ball return mechanism. We were not penalized (red-carded) because Dante in his mercy and good-refereemanship determined that the ramming by an opposing robot meant that our opponent had caused the penalty, so it would not count against us...
...but he told us to get it fixed so that it couldn't happen again, so we had to pull it off. T'was sad.